(1840 - 1862)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 20, from Jackson Township, Tioga County, he enlisted in Troy on 16 May 1861 and mustered into service as Corporal, Company C, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves on 10 August in Harrisburg.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
08/07/1840 in NY
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11216]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 22906]